Frank Sinatra, famous for his heavy drinking, once said: 'Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but The Bible says: 'Love your enemy.'
And that neatly encapsulates our love-hate relationship with booze. We know the dangers of heavy drinking, but most of us still get a lot of pleasure from a tipple.
Despite the pressures of lockdown, the average amount of booze being consumed in the UK hasn't changed that much, but where we are drinking, what we are drinking, and who is doing the drinking certainly has.
Surveys suggest that while a third of us have cut back, another third (mainly men and women in their 50s, who were already fairly heavy drinkers) have drunk more over the past year.